Safest way to travel.....

everyone knows that statistically airline travel is the safest way to go. obviously more people are killed on our highways than in the air. but would you rather take your chances in an auto wreck? me, personally, i choose the latter. in a car wreck, its not necessarily going to be fatal, as long as you have your seat belt on and the wreck is not too severe. an airline crash? you are pretty much at the mercy of physics. which of the two do you feel safer with?

I feel safer in cars, despite them not being safer.

It stems from knowing many things; If the car stalls or stops, I can just get out. If there's a crash, not necessarily fatal etc.

-AC

righto. and in a car, you are in control. if it rolls ten times, you can live through it. if an airliner crashes? man, they might find only the charred remains of your body.

Plenty of people survived airline crashes and a lot of accidents in airlines are not fatal, most of the time the planes manage to land. But still if I have to choose between an accident in a car or a plane, I would still choose the car, even though I would be more likely to die then in a plane...

Stupid really, but still.

Planes are much safer generally; car crashes are probably more survivable.

Next thread.

Originally posted by Fishy
Plenty of people survived airline crashes and a lot of accidents in airlines are not fatal, most of the time the planes manage to land. But still if I have to choose between an accident in a car or a plane, I would still choose the car, even though I would be more likely to die then in a plane...

Stupid really, but still.

i would choose a plane over a car. mostly because of having been in two near fatal accidents and now im scared of being in a car, and nothing bad has ever happened to me in a plane.

plus, i love flying.

i have never been in a plane crash, i must admit. but i'd still rather take my chances in a car.

Originally posted by Rogue Jedi
i have never been in a plane crash, i must admit. but i'd still rather take my chances in a car.

I've never hit myself in the face with a hammer, either, but I'm pretty sure I wouldn't like it!

I prefer planes to cars if it's a long distance. Actually...I can't really stand car rides, too long and aggravating usually.

not as aggravating the ground at 600 mph.

I don't like driving, I don't like flying, I don't like walking.

I just stay at home.

You're less likely to die in the air than on the road because statistically there are a hell of a lot more car crashes than plane crashes. Bigger body count to work with with cars. Planes are the least likely to crash of the two.

Originally posted by BackFire
I don't like driving, I don't like flying, I don't like walking.

I just stay at home.

Originally posted by Rogue Jedi
agoraphobic?

Nah, just lazy.

yo tambien, mi amor.

train. I think America needs more trains, take advatage of the invention that is train system and that is safe ay.?

Has anyone ever stopped to consider that the reason why statisticly their are more car crashes is necause they're like 5 times more Cars then there are Planes? Iono...

they might find only the charred remains of your body. [/B]

Or not even that. 🙁

I also feel safer in cars even though we have the most car accidents in the area that we live. :/ Trains used to be safe here but then they started stealing the cables.

Originally posted by Blaxican
Has anyone ever stopped to consider that the reason why statisticly their are more car crashes is necause they're like 5 times more Cars then there are Planes? Iono...

Usually when things are statistically safer that means they have taken that into account.

Originally posted by Fishy
Usually when things are statistically safer that means they have taken that into account.

However, there are no statistics in this thread.